Chapter 136: Training Ma Zhou
It's not that easy to get penicillin, and it also takes time.
Li Yuanjing asked people to steam a few pots of white-flour steamed buns, and then directly asked them to find a way to make the steamed buns moldy.
This step is very critical, and the other is the production of nutrient solution, which is actually not difficult, after arranging it, Li Yuanjing has nothing to do, and the next thing to do is to wait.
"Why don't you go and play cards?" Lying in the shade of the tree, Li Yuanjing looked at the other side a little bored.
"The family background is too thin, and I can't afford to lose!" Ma Zhou shook his head, not very interested in these entertainment items.
Although after last year's turmoil, these people have converged a lot, but there are many more ways to entertain in Chang'an City, and of course, many people have gone bankrupt.
Cheng Chumo and the others occasionally played with money, and even played some other bets.
Ma Zhou has been here for a while, although he feels confused all day, as if he hasn't learned anything.
But when I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that I didn't seem to have changed the same thing as before.
But there were still a lot of doubts in his heart, and he glanced at Li Yuanjing with some confusion, Ma Zhou took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness thinks, how can you govern the country?" ”
"Self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world!" Li Yuanjing closed his eyes and said slowly.
Everyone knows this, but how difficult is it to really do it? It took hundreds of thousands of years for the sages to do it! Ma Zhou responded with a wry smile.
Ma Zhou also had some hazy thoughts in his heart, but he felt that it was very empty and lacked more powerful arguments to argue.
In the past, there was almost no such opportunity, either Li Yuanjing was busy, or he was busy, and today he finally had such an opportunity, and he didn't want to give it up.
After all, he is in his thirties, and he has long passed the age of establishment, but now he still has achieved nothing, the imperial examination, the idea is good, but he can't pass the exam, what can he do?
"How can there be so much truth in this world? In order to show that they are different, the literati will find a way to make a simple and popular truth difficult to understand, just like a military general, who can do things with a knife, but he has to fiddle with it. Li Yuanjing didn't discuss more advanced topics with Ma Zhou, mainly because he wouldn't.
"Your Highness is afraid that the whole world will be scolded......" Ma Zhou was a little speechless, although the words were very rough, but it really made sense.
"Scolded, scolded, sages are a bunch of blind goods, speaking reasonably, don't want to be a cow, since they are so good, why are their times so miserable? If they have a point, then why haven't they been able to reach that height for thousands of years? A generation of faint kings, generation after generation of faint kings? Li Yuanjing opened fire coldly and spewed angrily.
What kind of bullshit, to put it bluntly, it's a group of contemporary bulls who are bored, and they don't have that ability, so what should they do?
Write a book, since you can't do it in your ability, then do it in the realm of thought, and when future generations look at these books, they immediately feel that ouch, it's very good, this is what I want, so everyone will refer to this as a template to work hard.
It cannot be said that these sages are wrong, at least they set a standard for future generations, an ideal era, and give future generations the impetus for development.
But it cannot be said that they are right, because those are all utopians, but this utopian fantasy has been recognized by more people.
In Li Yuanjing's view, the existence of sage books is not unreasonable, but if you look at it, as a book on ideology and morality that restricts individuals, can you govern the country with these sage books?
It's not that I look down on people, and it's not that I'm firing map cannons here, if these are really useful, why did Huaxia, which has been observed for thousands of years, get so miserable later?
Li Yuanjing has never read one of those books in its entirety, so he is half illiterate now, right?
But Li Yuanjing knows how to govern the country, and even those who are a little more open-minded will understand this truth.
"Governing the country is not something you can do if you want to govern the country to a certain height, those are all ambitious practices. Goals can be set, but every step must be done in a down-to-earth manner. Governing a big country is like cooking small fresh, it seems difficult, but it is actually very simple, it seems simple, but it is actually very difficult.
The ideal does not not not exist, but while starting towards the ideal, we must first build a platform and have a foundation.
Politicians should not do what you want to do, but should look at what the people need. What does the country need?
Natural and man-made disasters, people do not have enough to eat, do not have warm clothing, how did they do it in the past? Asking for rain from the sky? Rely on the imperial court to rescue? Rely on a broad mind to keep the people from going hungry? In fact, the solution to this matter is very simple, there is no need to be so troublesome, and there is no need to do so much useless work.
Improving farm tools, improving farming methods, as you have seen, the transformation of waterwheels, zigyuan plows, and composting, these three things can increase how much grain can be increased every year after the promotion of the whole Datang?
The solution is as simple as that, but those big people who live in the temple never think about it, or disdain it, maybe it is for their own interests? Maybe for something else?
You have also seen the weaving workshop, how the price of Chang'an cloth naturally does not need to be said by this king, although the income of ordinary farmers is blocked, but after the promotion of cotton, it can make up for the loss of these incomes, and when more workshops appear, the people will have the opportunity to make money when they are slack.
When the people have money in their hands, they naturally have to spend it, and some of this money circulates in the market, and part of it is converted into taxes and goes into the treasury, and the court can do more things when it has money.
When everyone has food, clothes to wear, a new house to live in, and a job with a stable income, when everything is better, why worry about the injustice? Why is the country unstable? ”
Li Yuanjing's words were like a heavy hammer, and they slammed into the depths of Ma Zhou's head.
This was the first in-depth communication between the two of them, and although he had already seen the difference here during this time, Ma Zhou even thought about the true meaning of the weaving workshop, and had been thinking about how to operate it in order to replicate more weaving workshops.
Li Yuanjing has a rudimentary research institute, the number of people is small, Ma Zhou also talked to Yang Li, knowing that the loom is from the hands of this wanderer who once almost starved to death on the streets of Chang'an, and this former wanderer has made two improvements to the loom, and is currently working on the third improvement, but Yang Li himself said that this time his goal is to be able to make a machine that can weave a piece of cloth in a day.
Here, Ma Zhou realized the importance of technology, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would have thought that the change in their lives would make countless people want to live and die, and it would be Yang Li, a bad old man?
Ma Zhou's whole person seemed to have fallen into a dementia-like state, and he walked out in a daze, and even forgot to say hello to Li Yuanjing.
This conversation had too much influence on him, and he needed a while to calm down and think about the implications.
Li Yuanjing beckoned to the guards behind him, asking him to follow behind Ma Zhou, so as not to make any mistakes because he was too engrossed.
"What did you tell someone? Seeing that scared people, Cheng Er was stunned and ......" Cheng Chumo didn't know when he had broken away from the card game and appeared behind Li Yuanjing, and said in a malicious tone.